If only
Rachel Boyton’s film, Our Brand is Crisis, had been a Hollywood blockbuster rather than a documentary
we may have avoided this disaster of a presidency.
For
anyone reading this post who may not have not seen it, the film is a frightening
preamble to the recent Obama presidential campaign, as the liberal
Democratic war machine we've seen in so many American presidential elections,
hones its skills in the impoverished country of Bolivia. There it orchestrates the election
of "Goni" an arrogant man who is clearly out of touch with his
poeple, with a marketing blitz that includes launching a campaign of
character-destruction against his rivals with the help of a willing news media
(at one point, you see Goni himself, ordering the press to place a
"news" story defaming of one of his rivals).
The
result of this excercise is shocking - a disastrous presidency which ends mere
months later in the deaths of a hundred innocent civilians, the exile of the newly-elected
Goni, and of course, with the pocketing of boatloads of cash by the agency of Greenville,
Carville (yes, James Carville), and Shrum (GCS).
This film
is not a comedy by any means. It begins with a shot of a bleeding corpse - a
victim of riots which ensued mere months after the election, after the GCS elected
Goni began to globalize and socialize Bolivia.
The
director has been chastised for, while being granted an incredibly damning
amount of access to the workings of the Democratic war machine, not seeming to
understand the true nature, amorality, and utter destructiveness of this team
as they play Goni, the media, and a poor, misinformed public, for dollars.
Personally, I have no problem with Boynton’s hands-off approach. There is no
filter, no shading, you see this team of rich, uncaring, political prostitutes
exactly the way they are.
Before
this film, I admit, I found James Carville amusing. In this film you see him
teaching Goni the same question-deflecting tactics you've seen used by Obama
and by many other liberal Democratic presidential candidates before him, and
you also see Carville "explain" himself and his methods in a
self-glorification orgy so filled with split-tongued venom you swear he morphs
into a serpent right before your eyes - without the help of any filmatic special
effects. I will never see him the same way again. It's not a good image,
believe me.
Perhaps
the biggest, and saddest irony offered by this film (besides the fact that the
2008 US presidential election ultimately proved you don't have to be an
impoverished nation to be led to a bad decision by a well-funded, amoral
election campaign and a willing media), comes in the list of countries whose
elections the firm of Greenberg, Carville, & Shrum has influenced. This list appears in the credits – it is well
worth sticking around to see. Self-hating American liberals have long made
unsubstantiated, vague references to the horrible influence the United States has had around the world, and have
used these vagueries to attack conservative American principles. And yet, here
is the liberal, Democrat war machine, plundering country after country for its
own gain (once again, make sure you watch the credits for the sickeningly long
list of countries these amoral goons have raped).
If you
have NefFlix you can watch this movie on your laptop, but I'm sure other video
outlets have it too. I only wish I had
seen this when it came out in 2005 - or even six months ago!
Many
reviews are available of the film, Our Brand is Crisis. A great one (and most-aptly
named) is on http//firedoglake.com – unfortunately, the link contains a
well-placed expletive – best to Google it!
Another
good one here:
http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/3/21/121925/568
IMDB link to Our Brand is Crisis http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0492714/
- Steve